I have problem to access my Macintosh HD even I'm admin, I can't change sharing & permissions when I go to Macintosh HD info, I get only message: "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission." This start happening when I start using High Sierra. If someone have answer to this question please help. Thanks.
In High Sierra, you cannot change the permissions on the root level of the hard drive.
If it is an external drive, you can set it to "Ignore ownership" in Get Info.
Or, you can just create folders at the root level to use instead. Once created, you can modify the contents without authenticating.
Yes, that is how OS X has always worked. Personal files should always go in your home folder, or put them in /Users/Shared if you want to share them with other local users. The root level of the hard drive is an admin/system area; don't put user files there.
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- Disables user-installed fonts
- Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
There are certain apps (Media Composer for me) that only work by putting files at the root of a drive. But this issue is easy to solve by disabling sip
Have you tried disabling sip like I meanioned in the comment above yours? It is the reason and solution to this problem.
chew1000 wrote:
There are certain apps (Media Composer for me) that only work by putting files at the root of a drive. But this issue is easy to solve by disabling sip
Seriously? That's a huge problem. Software that unnecessarily insists on writing to a protected System area of the OS is a security risk, especially when it requires the disabling of System Integrity Protection to run. I would contact the developer and tell them to fix their broken software.
Ppaatt wrote:
The solutions here aren't working. I'd like to see Apple fix this terrible High Sierra.
They aren't "solutions." They are the way things are.
The root of hard drive is protected from tampering.
Apple may decide it doesn't require that much security, but until they you should find a suitable workaround.
Writing to the root of a drive is actually part of an essential feature of how the software works in our office setting. It's pro level software that has been around for decades, not at all worried about it. You don't disable sip to run anything anyway, only to fix the permissions. Then sip goes back on once the changes are made. No security risk or problem at all.
Very nice, kinda like toggle a switch setting or what not on or off and back again - which does work on many issues for an Apple product. One of the first trouble shooting steps to do - OFF & back on.
Wow. I'm hoping that, Barney, you somehow aren't right about this—but it seems likely that you are. When I went into Terminal and couldn't chmod the volume's perms, I thought I was hacked or needed to reinstall or who-knows-what. I still can't quite believe it, but guess I must. This problem didn't exist on any Mac OS pre-High_Sierra, AFAIK. I actually found myself thinking that I ought to consider...you know, that other platform. ;-) Anyway, muchas gracias, amigo! FWIW, my relatively painful workaround was to open up Shared HD > User and copy (as copying via n/w was the issue) that way. SMH.
If you click on finder > Go > Macintosh HD > click on get info why are you trying to change the read and write permissions and interfering the settings .
The Mac user should not touch these settings , it could lead to system corruption and might have to install the operating system from the beginning .
Disable SIP, then change the permissions, then reenable SIP. Quick google search for that will turn up plenty of sites but basically you boot into recovery mode, go to terminal
csrutil disable
Then boot back up normally, change your permissions. Then back to recovery mode and
csrutil enable
Boot back into normal mode and that is it.
A couple hours with Apple support people and a reinstall of High Sierra didn't fix a thing. I appreciate the support staff's efforts and thoroughness, but all I can say at this point is if you haven't installed High Sierra yet, don't. I certainly regret doing so.
Fair comment. So I need to move all files I may want to edit and change to my root (home) folder? Ok that's not making my life ****, granted, but it seems inconvenient and unnecessary. It was also something Apple support staff weren't aware of as I spent a fair chunk of time in a chat yesterday with them trying to resolve issue. They came up with reinstalling High Sierra, which took time and didn't help. Also, thank you for providing the solution.
I will state this:
i have a MacBook pro retina 13" early 2015 w high sierra on it, what is different between that and my mac mini, sirca 2012 with os high sierra? MY MACBOOK PRO IS only on 10.12.6, whereas my MAC MINI is on 10.13.1, SO WHAT APPLE DID is remove us admins from having any privileges on the main harddrive when they submitted their most recent fix, i know this because i have all privileges on my MacBook pro, but upgraded on my mini and have none, cant even add my self or other admins to the hard drive..... yet on my MacBook pro i have already added myself admin and admins to the root of the drive for permissions.... the laptop i can add myself and take myself away from having permisions on the Macintosh hd.....not so anymore on my mac mini which has been updated to 10.13.1......
Problem with permission on high sierra
